Sentences with phrase «police killings»

For instance, police killings of innocent people are on the rise in every major city of a state in this country.

The lack of data on police killings stems, in part, from resistance on the part of police departments to making these data public, the authors write.

Human rights groups have said that police killed at least 24 people in unrest after the election.

Yet Mr. Schneiderman, with his measured criticism of Mr. Cuomo and his success in convincing the governor to make him a special prosecutor in cases of police killing unarmed civilians, is only seeing his stock rise.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will serve as a special prosecutor investigating cases of police killings in New York State.

Fryer said that after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and other recent cases in which police killed unarmed black civilians, Fryer felt he had to know more.

Another example of the shift is the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign, which has gained support in the US following shocking videos of police killing black suspects.

New York state's top law enforcement official asked Gov. Andrew Cuomo to grant him the power to investigate police killings of unarmed civilians after a pair of grand jury decisions in New York City and Ferguson, Mo., led to violence, protests and caused many to question the way police - involved slayings are reviewed.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last year that authorized Schneiderman to investigate cases where police killed unarmed civilians and cases where «there is a significant question as to whether the civilian was armed and dangerous at the time of his or her death.»

The two Brooklyn pols led parallel protests over recent police killings of African - Americans at the start of a Council stated meeting in October of last year.

Mayors and other top city officials routinely attend funerals for police killed in the line of duty, which are rare but somber occasions in New York City.

NEWS March 7: An artist group stages an «I Can't Breathe» demonstration at the Armory Show in New York, seeking to draw attention to recent incidents across the country involving police killing black men, including Eric Garner, who unable to breathe after being put into a chokehold during the course of an arrest, was left to die unaided, while under police supervision, on a Staten Island, New York, sidewalk.

Some said it seemed opportunistic and inappropriate at a time of national protests over police killings of unarmed black men.

Cuomo announced plans to have an independent monitor investigate when police kill unarmed civilians.

A 250 - mile march started in Staten Island over a week ago culminates today in Washington, DC with a rally to protest police killings of unarmed civilians and push for criminal justice reform.

One of his paintings is an image of Philando Castille that should have generated a public conversation about police killing black men, but its impact has been muted by the controversy over a Dana Schutz painting of Emmett Till in his coffin, that also appears in the biennial exhibition.

Today, 50 years later, while things are better, we still face many of the situations in this country that we did then, such as police killing on African - Americans, systemic racism in law enforcement, the courts and our prison systems, fair wages and affordable housing just to name a few.

Though the three - week trial was entangled in the furor over the death of Eric Garner on Staten Island, it never neatly fit the narrative of other police killings of unarmed black men around the country.

Accius is the man who led a horde of protesters to shut down entry to the Golden 1 Center for a March 22 Sacramento Kings» basketball game, four days after police killed Stephon Clark.

A video of Coeymans police killing a rabid raccoon last Monday by chasing it down and running over it over with their vehicles that went viral spurred a call for statewide animal control reform.

The poster style, dry humor, and grim politics recall Barbara Kruger as well as black artists concerned for police killings like Sanford Biggers, Carl Post, and Arthur Jafa.

MAGAZINE Issue 117 of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora is covered by a compelling photograph titled «Umfundi» from the Afronaut series by Cristina de Middel, and features an interview with architect David Adjaye about his design for the new Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at Harvard University, and selections from the journal's online forum discussing police killings of unarmed black men across the nation.

PERFORMANCE > Artist Dread Scott joins protestors in Union Square demonstrating against police killing black men, bringing a huge black flag, holding it aloft for all to see the words emblazoned on it in white: «A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday.»

They're dying from poverty, they're dying from unemployment, they're dying from killing amongst ourselves, they're dying from police killing us,» Mr. Barron said.

Long before they were rocked this month by local police killings of black men, the two U.S. cities were grappling with similar problems — police forces viewed by many as overly aggressive and unrepresentative of black communities.

Since then, a wave of anti-police protests has spread across the country fueled by high - profile police killings of other black men, including Baltimore police detainee Freddie Gray last year.

The debate over gun control in the U.S. heated up after the worst mass shooting in American history this week, when a gunman fatally shot 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando before police killed him.

These tensions reached a fever pitch in recent weeks with the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile followed by the horrific police killings in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

On the other hand, they could be a victim of a War on Drugs - there are 2,200 as you noted; and if we assume that as much as 25 % of those were innocent (unlikely but let's be generous and assume hitmen hired by police killed drug dealers only 50 % of time), that means 500 innocent victims.

Many came together Thursday in Sidney to honor members of the New York State Police killed in the line of duty.

The Buffalo Police Department was one of only three of the nation's 100 largest departments that went without a fatal shooting by police from the start of 2013 through 2016, according to Mapping Police Violence, an activist website that collects data on police killings nationwide.

Cuomo's executive order made a splash nationally, and New York remains one out of nine states to take action on investigations into police killings of civilians as of early 2017.

As the rally wrapped up, Ms. Mallory also plugged Gathering for Justice and a protest scheduled for June 2 to honor Ramarley Graham, an unarmed black youth police killed in his Bronx home in 2012.

The black movement, continuing police killings like that in Cincinnati recently, and, one could say, reality itself, have forced Sanders to move toward the black movement.

French police killed the attacker, identified as Redouane Lakdim, on Friday.

Valerie Bell, whose son Sean was killed in a hail of 50 police bullets nearly nine years ago, is one of 18 family members of people killed by cops who penned a letter to Cuomo, asking him to «enact an executive order to assign a special prosecutor to all cases of police killings moving forward.»

A federal grand jury in Brooklyn is hearing evidence in the racially charged police killing of Eric Garner on Staten Island in 2014 — as prosecutors look to get an indictment before Trump becomes.

1948 - Rioting after British colonial police kill three Ghanaian Second World War veterans during a protest march demanding compensation for their war service.

Governor Cuomo announced an executive order for a Special Prosecutor that would give New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the power to prosecute police killings.

The proposal falls short of a request by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that he be appointed as a special prosecutor to review police killings of unarmed civilians.

NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would issue an executive order appointing a special prosecutor to investigate police killings if the legislature fails to approve his plan to create an independent monitor.

Another Aug. 23 post from Toribio, who is a registered Republican, was highly critical of the Black Lives Matter movement which has focused on ending police killings of blacks and people of color in this country.

White plains Police Department is also the police department where police killed retired Correction Officer Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. when they responded to a life aide alert.

The governor — who has had an often antagonistic relationship with Mr. Schneiderman — said he personally favored «more discrete, more nuanced approaches» to handling police killings, possibly alluding to his State of the State proposal to create a monitor who would review the records of cases where grand juries decided not to indict a cop and making a recommendation as to whether a special prosecutor is appropriate.

Eric Schneiderman wants the authority to investigate future cases of police killing civillians.

Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday appointing the Attorney General as special prosecutor to examine police killings.

It reveals that the AG's own staff is worried about flaws in Cuomo's controversial July 8 executive order that handed responsibility in cases of killings by police to Schneiderman — an ally of the Rev. Al Sharpton — in the face of intense political pressure from black Democrats that resulted from the tragic death of Garner and other cases involving police killings across the country.

«The de Blasio administration has not created a national model to address police killings — it's created a model of deflection from accountability,» said Yul - san Liem, a spokeswoman for Communities United for Police Reform.

The FBI says that someone called its tip line to report concerns about Nikolas Cruz, who has told police he killed 17 people in a Florida high school this week — but that the bureau failed to follow protocols to assess the threat.